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In article <dbell-1104960125190001@wholder2.cts.com> dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell) writes:
>....
> If those other languages had all the answers, 
> then we'd know because they'd be behind the great and successful
>products, which they rarely ever are.

Nonsense.  AutoCAD and Interleaf are both Lisp-based products.
The now-familiar windowing paradigm of PCs and Macs originated
in the Lisp/Smalltalk world long before Apple or Microsoft co-opted it.  
American Express uses a Lisp system for automatic card purchase 
authorization (ever notice how much more reliable theirs is than most 
other such systems?).  The list goes on, and my personal knowledge 
of it is certainly limited to a very small subset.  A large percentage of
the ones I do know of are proprietary and confidential, because their
use gives the company who built them such a significant competetive
advantage.

Certainly we don't see a great number of end-user PC applications 
built in the relatively less popular languages.  Mainly they're found
in a commercial-use environment, where the advantages of Smalltalk
or Lisp/CLOS in dealing with complex problems can be very significant.

BTW, I'm not claiming that any language has "all the answers," and
I don't think anyone else made that claim either.

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